-- Jan 25, 1832
[Joseph Smith] Appointed President of the High Priesthood, Amherst, Ohio. (1)
[Joseph Smith] [Joseph Smith] Sustained president of high priesthood. (2)
[Joseph Smith] Joseph becomes the president and prophet of the Mormon Church. He serves in this position for twelve years until his death. (3)
[Joseph Smith] (age 26)Sustained as the President of the High Priesthood in Amherst, Ohio. (4)
[Lucy Mack Smith] Joseph Jr. receives a revelation at Amherst, Ohio, instructing Samuel Smith and Orson Hyde to serve a mission to the East. (5)
[Marsh, Thomas Baldwin] Appointed to preach in East with Ezra Thayer 25 January 1832. (6)
[Pratt, Orson] Appointed to preach in eastern states with Lyman E. Johnson 25 January 1832. (6)
[Revelations] Amherst, Loraine County, or Cuyahoga County, or November 11, 1831, Hiram, Ohio. Doctrine and Covenants 107:59-100. Offices of the priesthood: elders teachers deacons; each has its own president. The High Priesthood is the greatest. President of the High Priesthood is the presiding high priest. Bishop ministers in temporal things and sits as a judge. Major judgments rendered by the president of the High Priesthood who may call twelve counselors to assist.
According to the Kirtland Revelations Book, this revelation "regulating the Presidency of the Church," was given in Cuyahoga County. The Whitney manuscript, which may be a later version, gives no location or date. The Minutes of July 3, 1832 date this revelation November 11, 1831 in Hiram, Portage County. In the 1835 Doctrine and Covenants the revelation is placed after the revelation of March 28, 1835.
Newel K. Whitney Papers, Box 1, fd. 16.
Kirtland Revelations Book, 84-86, heading: "Revelation given November 1831 Cuyahoga Co Ohio".
Not printed in the Book of Commandments.
1835 Doctrine and Covenants 3:31-44 (following the revelation of March 28, 1835), heading: ON PRIESTHOOD. (7)
[Revelations] . Doctrine and Covenants 75. Amherst, Ohio.
Two missionary revelations, verses 1-22 and 23-36. A dozen pairs of missionaries called. Shake dust off feet will judge those who reject missionaries. Care of missionary families.
Newel K. Whitney Collection contains manuscripts of the separate revelations.
A note on the bottom of the first is, "A Commandment Given to 10 Elders at Amherst / Jany 1832. ".
On the back of the second, "A Commandment Given to the / Elders in Conference in / Amherst Jany 1832. ".
McLellin journals, 70 dates the first January 25.
Book of Commandments Book A (unpaginated).
Not printed in the Book of Commandments.
1835 Doctrine and Covenants 87 heading: Revelation given January, 1832. (7)
[Smith, Samuel Harrison] Called with Orson Hyde to preach in "eastern countries" 25 January 1832. On this eleven-month mission baptized sixty converts. Attended School of Prophets in Kirtland. (6)
[Thayer, Ezra] On 25 January 1832 again called to accompany Thomas B. Marsh on mission. (6)
-- Jan 26, 1832
-27[William E. McLellin:] I was sorely tempted of Devil But Friday night I made a hard struggle a[nd] shook him off my back. (8)
Joseph Smith is confirmed president of the High Priesthood by a church-wide sustaining vote. (9)
Footnotes:
1 - Joseph Smith Papers: Chronology for the Years 1832-1839
2 - http://josephsmithpapers.org/TimelineOfEvents.htm
3 - http://www.prophetjosephsmith.org/joseph_smith_timeline
4 - Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah
5 - Lucy's Book: A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, Edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson, 2001, Signature Books
6 - Lyndon W. Cook, The Revelation of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, Seventy's Mission Bookstore, Provo UT, 1985
7 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/s/_dc.phtml
8 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
9 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century_(Mormonism)
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